Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Jon M. Taylor (taylorj@ecs.csus.edu)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 14:19:37 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Jon Hamilton wrote:
>
> >} Well, what if you kill -9 the wrapper too?
>
> You really don' t see the point. The main problem is that Joe user can
> fake the console. The wrapper per definition run as root and only the root
> can kill the wrapper.

XFree86 4.0 will have separate device driver libraries. This
might give you the equivalent of your "wrapper".

Jon

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